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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1959)
53rd Year Medford 2nd SECTION Autos of 1980 To Be More Agile, Safer To Ride In Detroit, Look for the automobile of 1980 to be lighter, roomier, quieter, cheaper, more streamlined. Expect it to differ as much from the car of today as the car of today differs from its 1936 counterpart. Application of aerodynamic principles will make it more agile at any speed and safer to ride in. This will mean continued use of tail fins for directional sta bility. These were the predictions made by J. E. Charipar of the Plymouth Division of Chrys ler Corporation at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers here. Clean Contours Charipar foresees tomor row's car as having clean con tours, with flush .windows and ornamentation. Body surfaces may be extended , like a skin all around the car, including the underside. Engines will be more powerful but lighter and smaller, affording more room for passengers and car go. Improved road pavements will enable manufacturers to build cars with chassis clear ances of as little as four or five inches. Instead of sprayed-on sur face paints, the car of 1980 2 Polyethylene Ware STORE HOURS: Daily 9:30 to 5:30 p.m. Mondays 9:30 to 9:00 p.m. if 39 NORTH CENTRAL MEDFCRD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, may have a tinted oxide film coating, a "color-filled" metal surface that would never re quire polishing or repainting. You might even see brake flaps used in the car of the future. Charipar also foresees the increased use of glass and glass-like materials in upper body areas. Another speaker at the meeting, however, George B. Watkins of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, declared that glass as manu factured today failed to meet the dependable strength prop erties generally required of structural materials. But he, too, foresaw that continued re search would ultimately yield a transparent material lamin ated with glass which could be used as a structural member in automobile bodies. In a special session on the "aerial jeeps," M. O. McKin ney of the National Aeronaut ics and Space Administration, reported that his work indi cates such a flying automo bile is feasible from stability and control standpoints in that it could be made to fly satisfactorily in both hover ing and forward flight. A cer tain degree of artificial sta- Import Cups Imported crockery cups in moss, rose or blue willow design. A BIG VALUE FOR MEN'S Ankle Socles Heavy weight men's work anklet in white or random. Nylon reinforced toe and heels. Sizes 10' 2 to 12. 3 PAIR W 4-OZ. Wool Yarn Full color assortment of our reg ular $1.00 Poppy Knitting worsted. Sale Price 2 FOB $a 69 Basins, dish pans, pails, waste baskets. These color ful items are a big value. EACH W t m ICM))ij AVENUE Transient Held in Jail for Shoplifting Elbert Lionel Hawks, 60, was arrested Monday night in connection with the theft of food from the Groceteria, 200 West Sixth St., accord ing to Medford police. Police said Hawks admit ted the theft in a signed statement. Items taken in cluded Spam, sugar, jelly and pigs' feet, total value, $2.06. Hawks was apprehended on a citizen's arrest by Lowell Albert Iverson, 19 North Orange st., and lodged in county jail. bilization might be required, however, he said. Jphn V. Gorton of the Chrys ler Corporation said that the evolution of the Chrysler aer ial jeep project appeared now to require accomplishment of planned research and develop ment in these areas: 1. Powerplant Although designers have succeeded in producing powerplants capa ble of delivering three horse power per pound of engine, he said, some way must be found to cut their high costs. 2. Safety Some method must be found to enable fly ing cars to land safely after engine failure. 3. Flight Experience Ac tual flight tests are needed to back up wind tunnel and analogue computer simula tions of flight performance. Ladies A Cookies Just received a shipment of fresh, delicious cellophane packaged cookies. Choose from an assortment of 12 different kinds. PACKAGE Jewelry Necklaces, bracelets, earrings in pearl, pink pearl and fresh water VALUES UP TO $1.00. SALE PRICE 2 FOR Toiler Articles Big value line of quality toilet articles. Shampoos, hair creams, hand lotions, bubble bath, talcum powder, mouth wash, cold cream. 3 FOB LADIES Nylons 51 gauge, 15 denier full-fashioned nylons with neutral seams. Colors: Taupe and beige in sizes 8 to 11. 8 PAID W 'SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY REFUNDED" 1J 00 CCQj Price 10 Cents Tribune 1959 Pages 1-6 BAIN spatters light suit of Hugh D'Autremont, 54-year-old train robber, as he com pletes 31 years in prison at Salem, Ore. He's on parole. 4-H Club News Rooky Cooks The fourth meeting of the Rooky Cooks was held at Donna Bailey's home Dec. 18. Our Christmas party was held at this meeting. Each person brought "a gift per taining to cooking. Cake, jello and milk were served as refreshments. Darlene Thompson, Reporter. Briefs Made of 15 denier 2 bar acetate tri cot. Gingham check prints, floral prints and multi - color bubble dot prints. Sizes 5-6-7. 35 BIG VALUE FOR whit, pearl. !5T J & l Th. .t ehoMn by ptofaasionol machoaici I iQlWy HSK "4rSSfZp bCOM tt taduda EVERYTHING YOT I 0 lli.Wl.raWW SSSSsSi3 "4 Iiil r x Jlnn9-H Ancy's Bes Buy! jH&tv MEDFORD, OREGON Entire Chinese Peasantry Wot Sold on 0 vSng in Communes By PETER SUM Hong Kong -UPD- Commu nist China's "people's com munes" program, launched in April, 1958, has been de scribed as the most ambitious plan in history for complete regimentation of a nation. By Red China's own an nounced figures, almost half a billion farmers already have been moved out of their own homes to vast commu nal farms where they live and work as armies. They sleep in communal buildings. They eat in com munal messhalls. Their chil dren are cared for in com munal nurseries and schools where their parents may visit them at scheduled times. The foundation of Chinese society has always been the family. For peasants there was little else. Today the Communists, through the peo ple's communes, are methodi cally attacking the roots of home life. . It has been said, and many experts believe, that the fu ture of the Red regime in China rests on the success or failure of this program, de o u mM&m YOUR FRIENDLY Cj WSBm Z.T 7 I CREDIT JEWELER 15 II. Central jJJS1 JSJSgf SmSk !KS(. GREEN STAMPS gC3gfr' ' l-U . FREE PARKING AT ALAB AIM'S LOT ' I signed to combat food short ages and periodic famine by (1) vastly increasing produc tion and (2) controlling food consumption. Will the Chinese people ac cept the program? Will it work? Farmers Interviewed To get some of the an swers, this correspondent in terviewed a number of Chi nese farmers who have fled from communes to Hong Kong and Portuguese Macao in recent months. These people, of course, are all bitter. They ran, for their own reasons, from something they say they hated. But from all their stories, this picture develops of what the com munes are like: The work day, for many, begins at 3 a.m. and ends at 8 p.m. In some cases, under "emergency" conditions, the work day continues as late as 11 p.m. For youths, at the start of the day, there is a two-hours period of military training. For all there are two work breaks, 15 - minute periods for lunch and dinner. Breakfast is eaten between 3 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Main complaints of the refugee peasants interviewed were the length of the work day, the fact they could not choose their own type of work but did what was assigned, the breaking up of families by separation of husbands and wives and removal of children and "inadequate" food ra tions. Coolie Wages Most of those who have fled the communes have been forced to work as coolies at wages of about 50 cents a day; those unable to find even such work have turned to begging. One such 55-year-old Wong Sing-Pui, who ran away from the Mok Chow Commune in Kwantung Province, told me, "better to beg here than to go back there." A commune is in a sense one huge factory with work ers assigned specific duties: Eating in communal mess halls and sleeping in dormitories, families rarely have time to get together. In some com munes, I was told, husbands and wives occasionally are al lowed a few minutes' privacy, usually arranged by fell, v residents of dormitories who discreetly step outdoors. Although the Communists claim that parents are allowed periods to visit their children, Wong said there isn't enough time in a day to do it, not even to see the youngsters who are kept in communal nurs eries. Production Unsolved China's production prob lems have grown worse in the last few years because of the enormous population growth -an estimated 15,000,000 an nually which was running ahead of increases in food out put. Not only was it becom ing increasingly difficult to feed the population, but it was becoming more and more im possible to siphon off food for export to pay for industrial equipment which the regime desperately needs to build China into the industrial giant the Communists are trying to create. It is hoped that better or ganization of effort through the , commune program will solve these problems. The key, of course, is whether the people can be made to accept it. Already, there have been reports of scattered uprisings, one just a few hundred yardg from Macao on Lappa Island where the Communists in De cember executed several leaders of an uprising. It would be premature to view small, isolated demon strations as signaling a gen al revolt, but nontheless, these do demonstrate that Peiping has not sold the en tire peasantry on the need for communal living. APPLY NOW! FRRM Stct& 217 West Sixth Phone SP 3-5539 Use Our Spreader FREE! IIP KB IA 3., 11-
